title: Successful treatment of triple primary tumor.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The occurrence of multiple primary tumors is rare. Only limited number of cases with triple malignancy have been reported. We report here a rare case of a woman presented synchronous triple tumors, in her lung, breast, skin.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 56-year-old woman presented with invasive ductal carcinoma of breast, non-small cell lung cancer and malignant melanoma. The patient undergone mastectomy and malignant melanoma tumor excision on-site. After operation stereotactic radiotherapy was given to her lung tumor. Six course of chemotherapy was given to her. She is alive with no progression.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The patient was diagnosed with melanoma and staging by FDG/PET. There is not any study about routine using PET/CT in the melanoma staging.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This is a very rare synchronous triple tumor case.
authors.affiliation: Istanbul University, School of Medicine, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sidika
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kurul
authors.forename: Zuleyha
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Akgun
authors.forename: Esra Kaytan
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Saglam
authors.forename: Mert
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Basaran
authors.forename: Serap
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yucel
authors.forename: Sitki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tuzlali
keywords: Breast cancer; Melanoma; Non small cell lung cancer; PET